[flowerhead]

Interesting...I was watching a programme about this a couple of years ago, I remember a lady saying that in the villages of India, a mother would prefer to have a 'plain fat pale baby' to a 'dark skinned beauty'...I think it's just a cultural thing I suppose, just how tanned skin is more coveted in the West than pale skin. Pale skin has been associated in Asia with wealth and elegance for hundereds of years, (It only changed in the West with the 'luxury' of St. Tropez etc) so maybe that's why. You cant change the beauty ideals there, but they should stop bashing dark skin in order to sell their products. To state that lighter skin 'glows' more than dark skin is completely false, it's usually the other way round. Well they couldn't sell their products by saying 'Get dull pasty skin' could they? Pale skin is usually more monotone and has less depth than dark skin.